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The authors survey a number of interconnected areas: the use of seapower in international and intercultural relations, commerce and trade routes, naval technology and design, military tactics, the physical features of seafaring, and the geography of the sea. They make accessible to the general reader very technical scholarship, and provide numerous maps and illustrations that explain the changes in ship design and construction. The overall result is a powerful historical synthesis whiich gives students, teachers, and general readers a \"feel\" for the seafaring life and the place of the sea within medieval civilization.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590344253713,"sku":"GOR006341218","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50099690537233,"sku":"CIN0253205735G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253205735.jpg?v=1752316194"},{"product_id":"european-naval-and-maritime-history-300-1500-book-archibald-r-lewis-9780253320827","title":"European Naval and Maritime History, 300-1500","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first general survey of European naval and maritime history for the period from A.D. 300 to 1500 focuses on Western Europe, including the Baltic, North Sea, and Atlantic traditions, and on the Mediterranean, particularly Byzantine and Moslem naval history. 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McNeill  \"The reader will find here useful information and much food for thought; a book of such a broad scope is rare and has much to recommend it.\" —Speculum  \" . . . encyclopedic . . . there is no book quite like this one.\" —Choice  \" . . . a colorful canvas depicting the torrential movements of Eurasian warriors and merchants on ship-boards and horseback between Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific coasts, between streams of accumulated goods and tensions, religious fervor and insatiable greed . . . \"—Ural-Altaic Yearbook  \"A healthy antidote to the parochialism that characterizes so much of the run-of-the-mill output of medieval history . . . \" —American Historical Review  Emphasizing geographical, maritime, institutional, and economic factors, Lewis presents a wide-ranging story of the complex rise and fall of civilizations and explores new conceptual frontiers in the study of world history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50115448897809,"sku":"GOR007136903","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346314268945,"sku":"CIN0253206529G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253206529.jpg?v=1763479146"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-archibald-r-lewis.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}